and let's talk about president obama, the honeymoon period, will it be short, will it be long? >> very short, if it is one. the election was november 6th and i don't see any great impact he's having in pushing this fiscal cliff deal through. look, it's a second term presidency. honeymoons are always shorter and when you have divided government as we have now, the honeymoon is either nonexistent or very short. >> i would go with nonexistent in this case. you know, some couples take their honeymoon a year or so later and may happen then. speak speaker boehner, a lot of them are talking about his losing his leadership january 3rd there's a vote. what do you think? >> he will win easily. i don't think he will be seriously challenged. you know, running the house or the senate is like herding cats, and so, you have to give credit to the fact that speaker boehner can do it. i don't think there's anybody else who can do it better. >> dave: no one stepped up to challenge him, i don't think they will. >> juliet: let's talk about republicans versus democrats in the new year. >> republican